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F __ . oj _* Two _Uob-e-j . —On Saturday evenim ? the utmost alarm _w- _ occasioned in Endell-street _, Longacre , in consequence of the sudden fall rt' two lar _ _p * " houses , _nnmbene- 25 and 26 ia the above-named thoroughfare . The buildings in question had f _.-r some time past beea considered unsafe , and tke par" < m occupyine them had received notice to quit- Tht : _te _^ ente of No . 25 had left tke house a lew days , bat Mr _Crouchcr , the holder of the other tenement , was busily engaged daring the day in _gettiag his j furmtureaway . A few minutes after be had i ? ti | the house the party wall ofthe two houses suddesif , bulged and carried away the roof , floorings , « i _« osck Walls of both bni'dings . Mode-. _LoDGisQ-Docras fob rat * Labocwm > Cl & _sses . —The model lodging-house of the Society fer the Imuroverflentof the Labouring _Glasws , tutu _, ate in _Qevrge-eir & etSt Giles' ? . " ? now complete
, " -Rib building contains accommodation lor upward * _^ _fonehtmdredindiTidnals , each of whom will have a _t-epaKte eleepms place . The conwmenees of _th--builrfing are admirably contrived _, and the rent-la-_ _fin of the mo-1 perfect order . On the ground floor Ito hatha and -w ___ o * o __ . _** * . _iMift kitchen with eve- ? article _nectssary for cooking , a spacious living roor _ . ( store n _ r _ s _, & c * . Tbe place is lighted by gas . The turn to be charged as rent will be only -id . per night _, t _>">' e hope the society may be cheerfully encouraged . so tbat it may prosecute its highly-praiseworthy _unceriakings on a very extensive scale No _greater benefit can be conferred upon onr poorer _brethr---thaa providing them with clean , comfortable lodBinp _, at a cheap rate . Thia _waging oV the wav , on the part ofthis Society , against filth , stench , and _diaih _. ealing sestilence / _'is a step in tho ri ht dir ection ]
Fill _ i ihs Price oi * _ i _ : _ j . -- On _Wednesday , the bakers thronghout the metropolis lowered the price ci the _ b loaf , * _ d . The best bread « 9 d to _9 *_ it ; suMud quality Sd ; and in the Blackfriars-road , Westminster . _WhitecbaiieL be ., 7 | d and * 7 d . _Distbesskd Nse * __ woi __ _ SocieiT . —There was _nfuiidressaWtt on Wednesday at the _Hanover-«< i _**_ re Rooms . The _proceeds of it will go far to en-_ - __ ce the funds of the institution . It was under especial patronnge . Several distinguished artistes _toluntesred their talent in tbe charity ' s behalf , and amongst them the Misses Williams . Birch , Betts . _Sa'tomons . Madame Bompaini , Messrs John Parry . Harrison , Philips , Seguin , Richards and Ghatierton . xhe stewards announce that a gentleman has offered £ 100 as a contribution toward * an alms house for i ? ed _xetapsfresses , eimilax to that of the tailors' _ina _' _vHn _. ion . At the _conclusion the rooms were thrown o /* a for dancing .
Thk _We __ sgtos Statue .- —On Monday a number of men were engaged in remoriug the remaining por-_ _* m of the huge scaffolding which was erected to Taise up the Wellington statue . It is expected thit a . fortnight mil elapse before its entire removal will be completed .
ISOxtSB . lKMXTici 0 * s . —Before Mr Mills , by adioarnment , at the Suffolk Arms , Grove-street , Camden-town . on the male infant of _Elita Marshal ! , an unmarried _fe-nale _, which was found smothered in the _water-_* . _ _*_ Mrs Sntor , accused ' s aunt , paid that the _at-wed waa not suspected of being pregnant until the 29 th alt ., when the infant waa _tound In the soil , and she acknowledged that it was her child . Mr Cartis , the district parish surgeon , whose death from fever was announced in last week ' s obituary , w _» instantly called in , to whom she confessed that the child was born beforo its timo . The coroner _inforroedtht-jnry that since they last met Mr Cnrtis , who hadexunined the body and attended the inquiry , died from "
fever , lie ieft behind him a written ac eoont of _thepost-snorfeni examination , from whicb it appeared that the deceased had lived . But as that statement could not be pnt in as evidence , he was of opinion that die jury would be compelled to * Mm _ an open _vsrdict . Mr Fellows , his assistant , said ( hat Mr Cartis left his bed to attend the first day ' s _in-0-Hty , on the _ ith alt .: he died on the Srd inst . Verdict— " Deceased waa found dead in the privy ; but there was no _evidence to prove whether he was live or not , " At the dose of the inquest the police _sn-ested the mother for concesding the birth . !>** _ ¦ _ wans B _ r _ r __ —Alleged Neglecto ? the Police . —Before Mr Carter , at the Mitre Tavern Jlrmdvrati , _BlackfriarS , Oil E . P . Gibbon" * , aged 1 G .
J-. ** West , of Southampton street , Strand , slated that on Friday ni ght , at half-past 11 , he went witb _ws deceased , who was his apprentice , to bathe ia the _bashs in Oakley-street , bnt fonnd them closed . _Deeeesed wanted to go into the water at Waterloobridge , and ashed witness to go in , which he did , and -swam beyond him , and then showed him how to strike out , while witnes * held up his chin . He _*« _ np to his _fulldepth near the bridge , and asked witness to leave him . As they were simultaneously strikius ou ? , the witness left hold of deceased , who was carried _do-vn . Witness made for the spot where he thought _«* * _isd fallen , but could see nothing of him . Help ? a * called for , and the Thames police and another boat came np . "Witness got into the latterand ashed
, 21 tha boy was found , and they replied " All right . " Vt uness supposed he was in ihe other boat , or _¦• wonld not have left . Ba * rir _ C _ an _** ed his clothes at __!»_ , be went to the police ship , and was told the boy bzi not been found , and thesn * ierintendente * _cpressed his surprise he should hare left . He replied he shonld wt , bad not the men called ont " all right" lie p « _-inted out to them the spot where he sank . The jury returned a verdict that the deceased was accidental ** drowned . Thecoroner hoped there was some nmiake _ . fo the TLames police , for they were _sene-• rally mast ready to afford assistance . _iKUXPUCiBiE _Smcrnt * - —Before Mr Payne , at 51 Gearge _' _sworkhous , on G . Kent , porter atthe Clarence hotel , Brighton . Mathew Brass said that on Monday
www . t ' ae _da-tfe & sed , who was his fellow-servant . _«• ¦¦* - bim how long it would take to hang himself ? _Witneia told him he thought about two or three njjfiutes ; upon which tha deceased replied , that if _ < _dinaght he wonld be dead in half a minute , he _woi-ld hang himself . He did not say why , nor could ws _' ii-S guess the cause . In the course of that day he ws * seat for change for a sovereign , but instead of _retoming with is , came by railway to London . From further evidence , it appeared that the deceased tooka _lodgm-ton Thursday night last , at the * ¦ Red House , " _ _ya- * ra __ 3 lodging honse in the Mint , and on the _foUi-sing morning was found hanging by a rope to a rafter _acrtss the room , * uid quite dead . Just under _jfhnv-- be was ban-dug , ho had written in chalk , " My
_fri-nds rive at 73 . Church-street , Brighton . " - _Tern-i | M .-ra » y Insanity . ' * Okath cf the _Staqk M _ _ ger _o _? the PmscKSi ' s _Thkatob . —Before Mr Mills , at the Feathers , Warrenatrevt , Fitooy-square , on Mr T . J . Walton , aged 48 , _la'c stage _manager to the Princess ' s theatre . Mr T . Parker , Ji _na-. _aui _*( _ eon in the University College Uospi _* . ii , said that last Friday evening a message was ace- to Mr Listen , reqairing him to attend deceased . In the a ' fience of Mr Liston , witness _attended , when _ . e fonnd deceased suffering from a painful disease , and al ?** from the effects of a strong narcotic . Having Efcertained that he bad Jaken a large quantity of laudanu _ and morphia to allay his suffering , witness _ - 'idied the _aeces 3 aiy re _ edi _ i to correct their effects . In an hoar afterwards Mr Liston arrived , and
a : proved of his treatment . He understood that , in the first instance , Mr _Hallion , deceased's medical attendant , had ordered landanum , and that afterwards no prescribed for him three grains of laudanum in * _ ounce solution , to be taken 30 drops every two hours tu allay Ms pain . Mr _ilallion had also bled and Purged him . Witness remained until __ o ' clock on _Saiard-iy morning with deceased , wbo died about _twelve o ' clock . By the coroner : Understood that do _ ased had taken the laudanum oftener , and in greater _qnanritics than prescribed . In all , he had tak _«" n 16 _ grains of opium , which was sufficient to kill an _npiuoi _ester . He c _* ch _ ted that tne opium hastened hi = death . although thepostmortm examination wauld sot _iustify the _cgnctcaon _, _ . the length of time
_thatelsps _* - _between his caking the laudanum and his d _ _a * h was so great that the system absorbed tho ' T _ iei $ ou aud destroyed ita traces . Mrs Walton , _de-Cr-iscd ' _s widow , confirraed the medical testimony . She _futtusr stated _ u » t her husband , who was in the babit of taking laadanum to assuage his sufferings , comop . l ' eti her to purchase and give him at two separate tiroes double the quantity of laudanum prescribed by Mr _HalHoa , which he took during Friday night . BV the coroner : Her husband had no idea of destroying life ; hia object was ease from his intense suffering . Verdict—** Deceased destroyed himself by an ever « _ _sa of lanalanom _. vrblch he took with the view of _jjferiating the _disease under which he suffered , and that he had prescribed fur himself a portion of that Jaadanum . "
_iCCIDKSrS , OFFEXCES , _ C . F _ r _« AccmESi os the _Eistkrs CousTres _ g _ _in , _--- _ iT . —On Monday afternoon , as Wm . Colewell , _ porter in the service of the company , was prtjc _« _diog _d-.. wn the Hue he waa overtaken when abont 209 yards from the Shoreditch terminus by an engine . The driver endeavoured to alarm him ; but from . nae _inexplicable cause he never turned irom his _eourse until atrnck by the buffer of the engine , which passed aver him , cutting- his head in two . The docensed was twentv-four years of age , anative of York ,
and without a relative in London , had been _freqneatlv wamed ofthe danger attendant on _hlsrecKIes _* __ s by Mr Grimahaw , t he station-mailer . Fatal , Accn >_ sr os thb _Rivib . — Oa Sunday evening a boat , in which were two ladies and several gentlemen , was swamped just below the pool , nearly _opnasite _Rattsnbury's Dock , by the sweil of several teamcrs . The life _baov-j of each steamer were thrown overboard , and a _' lraat lowered , and all saved a _*_ ptMrSmith , of Gray ' _s-inn , who was swept by the tide under a tier of _ahinr- _' _n- . , and lost sight of .
The Remauh Of A Jaig.- Coral Reef, With ...
The _remauH of a _Jaig .- coral reef , with gigantic _branohes of a beautiful _arbow-jceot fo ! m , 'ha _** e teen ( bund in tha Valley of the "Mississippi . * A new kind of onion waa introduced three or font __*_ _ra " - _» _- „ ki _ io _Francefr ' im Algeria , having the pceuliarity that they ripen a mouth earlier tban the _Aommoospeeiea . At the present moment they ate Beady ready to be taken from tba ground . Tiu _* st _tmootmTej _osopagitsd by _baiying the _ror-ts Ilka _ . 9 rli _
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- ** _un _ _nujiu _* _iai ; f _Ftusoxisra it _Nonrn _Shiklos . —a lengthened _inoairy bL'l < . re Mr Reid , coroner at North Shields , _hns _jaiai . terminated in a verdict of wilful murder against _Afirenret _I . e « nnx , for having caused the death of her _husband , _J-din Lennox , by poison . The _deff ased , w . _' _to w « _s _sixty- « even years of age , was _for-•_•* ¦ . ¦ *¦? a _uBilnr . but bad latterlv obtained a livelihood as a _seuliernmn on , ho Tyne . " » le was in good health jip to tbe 3 _rai ins-., 0 n which d *\ y he went home to his dinntv , _n-i n « u *\ but on returning to bis occut »» t < nn it ? _comtt ' aincd of a pain in tlte stomach , which mi _*« _-as .: d to 8 m * h a degree that he was oblieed to
return and go to bed . The symptoms continued , and he di ** d the « ame evening . A doctor was sent '¦ n \ but dec 4 ? a _* _-ed died before he arrived . No one u * _-, e « ed his death was attributable to unfair mean * , until it become know ., that an app .-entice of a neigh-*» urin _» chemist bad sold _eowe arsenic , to the wife f c ? ecea _*» d = n the Saturday m'Tnin- ' . Information ? " is then ciih * reye 4 to the ca . Toncr , and on inquest wis held on thi * Mv . A woman who was called in t > -ittend _upiin tbc _decrased durim * his illness _des--- rabed the _sytrptoms . and the wife of the _deceased * _H « aiin _ itied to mahe a v ( i ]< _int--rjr statement . Sho _ttrihut _. _. .. tU * _Ulnes . _** . _*\ _dereast-d to having taten * ** n <* puddii g ra _* ade of Indian meal , which aha had • ameht at a neii . _'b _* j _. urincr crowr '** . and she said she
- _»! s _ had been _nnwe'l from the same cause ; 8 b _(* S 0-< 'nr . wled - mqaest adjourned . A comiderab ! e quantity of arsei'ic was found in tbe stomach and intestines of tin * <' e _* _-a . _* a * _. ed « m applying the usual tests . The fact nf tbe prisoner having
purchased the a _* __ i' _* on _thoSa'urday was clearly provrd , snd it alio api-eared that the decease < l and his _wifu had _freqtiently quarrelled , on account of the Utter havin _* - given herself much up to drinking . The jury , after hearing the «* vider _* ct * , returned a vrr . iiet of " "Wilful Mnrder" aeainst Margaret Lennox , who had b _** _a ? n previously taken into custody hy order of the _magis _' rateii . and she was oommittcd « n the coroner ' s warrant tu wkt » _liw * trial at the next assize * for the county . The _det-eaa ' . d and his wite bad * >< en _marrh'd fir _upwurds « _if thirty-seven _y- * ar *» , and three of their ff pring are living , two of whom are married .
TOBKSBIRE . _So'Pected _IucBsni-, ui 8 _M—Scftreely a forini' -ht has elapsed - _« £ nce an «? _ ? ensive fire broke out OH the premises of Me _.- _ -8 James Akroyd and ** ion _, estecaive wowt _«*_ spinners , known a . ** _B-iwrintr-dyke Mill , near Uatifax , by whieh fmm l . flfiO to 1500 work-people were thrown out of employ , when a _rt- ' -urreacoef the _disasier took _plaee . Last _Wedrn-ydny week a fire hurst out in the model-room of -mothi r mill belon _* --ing to this firm , situate at the imttum « f New Bank , near the junction _« tf the twe roads fwra Halifax to Bradford . The flames rased witb t'reatfury , and very extensive _damase was doie . This occurrence following an sonn after that of the 1 st ., has led tO the anspicion that the wh _ e ia thp work of an incendiary , and great sympathy ha * teen excited for tbe sufferers .
_BKRKSlUBt * . _Wctosob—Sisodur Ca _ oy S _« _iM-- iMBuMsu . —A mtist fearful accident has _occurre-i _ o a little boy nly ten _yiara of age , the _fon of Mr ( . ' S . Vonles , solicitor . P 3 rk-8 treet . _a \ Ir Sti < _l «* ejJ t articled clerk to Mr _Voules , hearine at a _v--ry _t-ar \ y Hour in the _morning t he breaking of ela _«« . and t hi sound of Bonw _' - . _biDgfallin _** on iho paved ya _* _-l . _imniidiately
[ cuntusiohs , no bones , _fortiivately . w «_ broken . It jvas gathered from the little _surf _.-rcr . _»« soon as he TiisreataredtOBensibinty , that In- ha _< l been dreara-I ' ng he was hathin < t in tbe river , anal it is supposed I hat when hs was in the imDgiaary act of leaping from a bank into the wate- . he > -ir _ _ig from the _res-iing-table through the window , failing from a _height ( his bedro' -m being on the _rtc-md _ - _* or ) of _upwards of twenty-eigbt feet . A _Ithou-th the pane of glass he leaped _thr-mt-b was little tn- > -e than a foot S _n care he sustained not the least it jury from tbe _u-oken glass . We regret to state -hit from the extremely severe nature of the i _jur-it _* _- ' he has _sustained , but very faint hopes are entertained of his recovery .
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_O'Gorman , son . was struck with a stick on thc back ofthe head , Mr Meagher was knocked down at the corner of Earl-street , and Mr Joseph Rogers , of _Capel-streel , was attacked and beaten by some per-8 f > ns atthe same place . Amidst a scene of general uproar , tho gentlemen before-named , with their friends , entered the shop of Mr Faulkner , grocer , North Earl-street , for refuge , when the house wns imm ediately surrounded , and stones flung throu ? h the windows , one of which hit Mrs Faulkner on the bead , and severely cut her . After a short time s ? ent at this place , a reinforcement of polioe arrived , which prevented any farther attack , and enabled the gentlemen to retire . Tlie groaning , however ,
continued for a long time , in the raidat of which loud cheers were given for Old Ireland . " At the weekly meeting ofthe Repeal Association oa Monday , Mr John O'Connell commenced the business of the day by handing in several sums of money . _Amongst them w . _ a remittance of £ 12 12 * Gd from the Right Rev . Dr lliggins _, Bishop of Ardagh , who says that tho contribution "is the voluntary offering oi a poor people , almost heartbroken by every kind of oppression from bad government , bad landlord ** , and mal-administration of bad and cruel laws , Under Providence their only hopes for redress are fixed on the peaceful and persevering efforts of Conciliation-hall , for wbose success they incessantly and fervently pray . " The rent for the week was announced to be £ 5 . 15 j id .
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_yaOORtSS OP " CQ . _VTI--ClTIa _ " The Gn _ rdian 3 ofthe Ferm . > y _Uui'iu , headed br Lord _Mouiitcashell and Mr Bnrke IWhe , M . f \ anil inc ' _udiuj a va ? t array of the _landlords of the county of C _* . irk , met in great force tbi- week to discuss thp vital question of attikins % _TiveVor tho purposes of 0 t-door relief , in pursuance of a peremptory warrant issued by the _Lord-Lieutenaut to levy a rate ot 3 s . in the pound off the union at _lanre . Upon Mr Stephen Barry developed " the unpleasant duty of proposing the heaviest rati' ever struck in Fermc-y , " snd in fulfilment of this dutv that _ 'ntleman pmca _ de < _l to state the amounts for _whu-ii the several _electoral divisions were liable . After some discussion , {
' * Mr Sawjeb _suggested tbat the board should follow the example of the guardians of B _** llin _** ar , and forward a petition to Parliament , praying tor an extension of time for the repayment of the money advanced for out-door relief under the Temporary Relief Act . "Lord Mot _*** Tc _ i ** _ _ . approved of a petition emanating on the _subject irom that body . But lie apprehended it could not be presented in sufficient time . Talk of 9 s . in the pound , out of . Macroney l It reminded bim of the old saying , * Tbattney could not get blood out of a flint . ' AH'he military in her Majesty ' s service—all the powder in tbe universe , and all the bayonets that could be _imported from Birmingham , could not enable tbem to pick up gold
ornotesintheGIanworth mountain-. Let government , if they _choje , go to extremities , and set the country in ablaze . " Mr Rocbk said , that so long as he occupied the position of trust he then held in the county , he shouldpresent any petition _hisconBtituentertqnired ; at the same time , he felt bound as an honest man u > tell them that sueh a petition as had been suggested , emanating from such a body as that , when sent to England would be mere waste paper . It could have uo effect unless backed by Btrone . powerfn _) , and earnest agitation outside _doora . Bis opinion was that this money , which was laid out to meet a case of national emergency , should not be levied as a local taxation , but should come from the Imperial Treasury .
"Lord _MororrciSHKit—Hear , hear . " Mr R « chb , —They should *_<__ * a stand now , for U they paid the 3 a . in the pound they wonld be mulcted again and again , till a fraction wa » not left id the country , nnd till a revolution woud spring up . ( Hear , hear . ) Ail the bloody revolutions which had arisen in Europe originated iu financial difficulties . Let them , then , stand on the ground tbat they were iv _* t boattd injustice to pay this rate , and tbat 'bey could not pay it . ( Hear , hear- } lie was net advocating the principle of not supporting the poor ; but tbis waa not a question of poor-rate . ( Hear , hear . ) It was a question of a national difficulty . ( Hear , hear . )
'• Lord _MotwrcAsniiu . said : the government , indeed , might crush them—they might confiscate their properties and bring ruin en their dependents , aud iu that way put au extinguisher on Ireland ; but how would they be able to govern Ireland afterwards . It most be by the sword . They should send for military governors and station them at various places , and try aod keep order , if they could . But England must see the folly of looking for what there was not iu tb ' 13 country , and he trusted they would not resort to such severe measures aa would put tho whole country against them , and occasion not only great loss ef treasure , butgreat loss ef blood . ( Hear , hear ) . " The board then rose , the question of tha rate bein _* adjourned . "
* rn _ iTAHV _ * r . The usual very favourable reports have been received respecting the grain crops . Regarding _potatoes the _accounts areetill <_ nflicti *_; but it is certain the disease has re-appeared to some extent , although iu a form somewhat different from what it bore in the two preceding years .
IU- MORAL VOECB PRISCffLH . The Irish confederation held their usual weekly meeting on Thursday evening at the Musio-hall iu Abbey-street . At the close of the proceedings , Bays the Freeman ' s Journal , within the hall large crowds had collected outside , who occasionally gave rent to their f _^ eiinga iu loud cries for O'Connell , Conciliation __ a _ , and Old Ireland , mingled with groans and other _expressions of disapprobation for Young Ire-J snd and the confederates . On the appearance of Mr tt . O ' Gorman , sen ., and Mr R O'Gorman , jun ., Mr Meagher , Mr Mitchell , and ather members of tbe confederation , without the building , the groaning
became more marked and energetic ; and these , in turn , were met with opposite expressions of feelina from the persons vho had attended the meetin " . At this time the rush of people from the _neigbbourin _** _streettj , and the great excitement that prevailed " were truly alarming . A large police force was iu at _^ tendance , but tbis was iueUei-tual in quelling the _disposition to _rioi Each moment the counter-demonstration oi opinion assumed more threatening aspects . Stones were flung rather freely ; and , in the tumult , several persons were thrown dowu and _iram-ded upon . . Matters continued in this state until the crowd 3 had reached Sackville-street , when Wows were rather generally resorted . _to-McRifikei
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GUILDHALL—A Man ' s House not ms Casus . — Diehard Stringle was charged witb _bsingln tbe unlawful _poa-tgsion of a house in Toy-lane . —A Mr J . _ win _» was a lessee uader the Dean of St Paul's , of lome houses in Toy-lane . He let one of tbem ( No . £ ) to a _person named Evans , who resided in it until about twelve moatllB sinca , when ho _trans & rreai . ht » tenancy toapmonnauied Lewis . The latter eventually gave up possession to the _ordinal lessee , _AfrEiriaj , whieh reaching- tbe ears of Erans , ho wanted to r . gain possession , on tae grounds tbat he bad new _re-jul-trlj given it up . Accordingly , on _Yfednesday , a Mr Allen and the prisoner , enteroii the premises , and said they came to take possession on behalf of Mr Evans ,
and that the prisoner wauld be left there . Ur _Evrtns remonstrated , aud told them they were trespassing ; but Hading tbe man would remain , he called in a policeman , and the prisoner was taken to the station-bou _. e . Mr Hobter , for the prisoner , said he suspected the ald __ an had no jurisdiction . He wished to know what the nature of tbe charge was that they intended to press!—Mr _Hum-ahrej ' a dark said , for taking unlawful posses-lien ! —Mr Hobkr contended that the prisoner had a right to do what he was ordered ; and , if he was _trtspassing _, they hnd remedy in another way . —Sir C . _Ut . rshall did net think he coold interfere .- —Mr Humphrey ' s clerk said _, tben he had no charge to piesR , Ho Should Seek hU remedy by an action of trespass , —AU parties then withdrew .
BOW-STREET . _—ItoBDZBT bt a _Somiee . —Richard Kind , a soldier and John Martin , tvere charged with assaulting — Holborn , on Monday morning , and stealing hit watch . One of the riding boys of the "Post-Office _snid that he saw the soldier clasp the prosecutor round tbe waist and take the watch out of hit pocket , ne handed it over to his companion , who ran off with it . Witness gave the alarm , and witb ent- or tiro policemen , pursued the prisoner , firbo , ending himself hard pressed , threw the watch down upon the pavement . The two prisoners were caught and taken to tbe station-house . The soldier and prosecutor wera both drunk . The prisoner Martin wag sober . The prisoners were committed for trial .
MANSION-HOUSE . —Thi _Thaucs _Stiahws . — The Lord Mayor said he bad received a number of letters complaining ofthe dangers and annoyances to which the writers had been subjected , in consequence ofthe careless and reckless mode of _navl-j-otlng and overcrowding _steam-boats npou the river Thames . To several of those letters be bad replied , but many of them entered so much into detail that formal answers could not be given without the greatest inconvenience , and he hoped the press would , under such circumstances , notice ths obserrations he was about to make upon tho _subjeot . The public inferred that because he was _conserrntor of the river Tiarnes from New Windsor to _Yantlet-creek , he van , therefore , tbe redresser of all the wrongs committ'd in thut extensive part of the river , bnt « _s a magii .
irate his jurisdiction was not _co-estensive , fer if an offence was committed upon the river beyond thc City of London , such act determined the magistrate who should take _cognisance of that offence . Non-, he had observed that every complaint which had betn made to bim was capable of being remedied by thc Watermen ' s Act ; but it was a singular fact , tbat not one cuuse of complaint uf the _descripii _ to which he had referred arose within his jurisdiction as a magistrate of tho City of London , the law requiring the complaint to be made to some _justi -e of the peace acting tor the place nearest to that at which the offimce was committed . He was fully aware chat most criminal recklessness was displayed by tbe masters of the numerous steamers plying upon the river , and he was anxious to do all in his _pon-er to
prevent any accident from occurring , or any infringement of a law so necessary to be observed from taking place . He hnd given directions ta bis own _officers to co-operate with those of the Watermen ' s Company in checking in London , by means of rigid punishment , any abuse of tbeir act of parliament , orefthe very useful by-laws of the Court of Aldermen . He , however , wished it to be distinctly understood that if persons who witnessed the commission of any offence were _indifferent as te tbe consequences , or considered their time too valuable to ba expended in the making of a personal complaint , the _ ult - » as theirs , not his , if punishment were not inflicted for the mischief perpetrated . He would ( as he had
done during tbe preceding portion of his mayoralty ) readily and _chotrfully devote his time to the duties of bis office , and promise that no just cumplaint should be _unredressed if the parties would wait upon him ; but he had too many engagements in his public capacity t « allow him to enter into an epistolary correspondence with a number of persons who were wholly unknown to him . — Several _sumuaonsta were subsequently issued by his lordship upon tbe application of persons who complained that within his lordship ' s jurisdiction as magistrate in . _aliuduttls had performed the duties of captains without being duly authorised , and that in other instances the by-laws passed by the Court of Aldermen had been violated '
LAMBETH . —Dopble Charge ov _Bioamv . —MicbaVl Daley was charged with intermarrying with Johanna Brawn , his wife Bridget being still alive . About thirteen years ago the prisoner got married to Bridget Sheen , then supposed to be a widow , and four years ago , last _Christmas Day he was married a second time , as it is alleged , in StPancras , to Johanna Brown , a spinster . — He _dssened both wives , aad his former one , Bridget , uapptn _' nx to meet him by accident , gave him into _custody . —The prisoner _d-nied being married to Johanna Brown , and said his reason for leaving his wife Bridget was his having discovered that she corresponded with ber former husband , who laad been transported . The wife admitted " , that ber husband had been transported for being a " Whit boy " in Ira-land , but denied having heard from him loot , before _h-vr marriage with the prisoner or since . —The pr » a _ n _ -was _ t __ . u _ty remanded , ior the _attaoalance of mhfr and _importunt witnesses _.
MARYLEBONE . —AtTZ __ rc _> Suicidb . — Mary Anne Jonvs , a young woman , was charged with having attempted to _com-uit suicide —A _pollce-constable deposed 'hat on _Taies . iay morning , about five o ' clock , as- be was on daty in ti > e _Rwem ' a-park he heard a loud scream ia the direction of tba bridge , neaT Gloucester-gate , and on proceeding to the spot found the prisoner , who bad just got over the railin s on to the parapet of the bridge , with the intention of throwing herself into the canal , wbich object she would most certainly have iffected bad not a _fa-male _, who happened to be passing at the time , thrust her arms through the railings and held her tightly by the dress . _Witm-ss with great difficulty succeeded in extricating her from the p _.-rilsus position in which she had _pt & ced herseit , «_ = u th .-. declared that although then _tlisappointtd , she wa « uld effect Uw object the first ti _& aft ** chance might offer itself . The prisoner was remanded while Inquiries are instituted respecting her connections , with the view of having ter placed under proper care and contrnul .
WORSHIP-STREET . —Arson . — John Watling was charge-wiih _wiltully setting fire to the premises of his master , Mr D _* Sax , wadding manufacturer , _Montaguestrtfet , Spitalf _ _ld _« . —On _Tue'day week tbe prisoner was obearveii by a lad named Williams te leave the premises in ft hurried manner , and immediately a fire burs tout . A great _partion of the building and property was destroyed . A constable stated tbat tba pri-oner came to htm and said that he was desirous of giving himself into custody for having set fice to his master's house . He said he had acclalentally let Ma lucifer-match , by which he was about to light his pipe , among a lot of tow , which had ignited ; and seeing that ths premises were likely to ba set on fire , he hastened to escape . He , however , denind all intention of wilfully suiting the houe on firo . —Mr De Sat aaid that smoking was strictly prohibited not only in his , but in all factories ofthe like nature . Hif confirmed impression was that the prisoner had wilfully set _ r « to tbe premises —Mr Arnold remanded the prisoner .
CLERKESWELL . _—Cohfessioh or a _McBMa . —On _Weainesday Jehn R _imsay _, who somedays ago surrendered himself to the _' _-pobce on his own confession , was again charged with the wilful murder of Mr Henry Williams , when tho most intense interest was manifested ; and loug before the prisoner was placed at the bar the court waa crowded ia every part almost to suffocation . Mr Hon v , the barrister , attended on behalf of tbo prisoner . The following additional evidence was adduced : —Mrs Sarah Osborne , wife . of Mr Henry Osborne , of the Vniveisitv Hotel , _Rathbone-strt-eJ , St P « ncras , bavin- been sworn , deposed that , in October , 1814 , her husband k ? pt the _Ctooka-d Billet Tavern , Tower-hill . She knew tho pri .
_soner and also Mr Williams , the deceased . Hail seen _thajm gtviiial times . Ss * v them on Saturday _evening , the 2 nd of _Novsmber , 1811 . The prisoner und Mr Williams cam » to her hou _ intoxicated . It was _Int . veen S aud 9 o clock at night . Tho prisoner stopped at tha bar , and Mr Williams rreat upstairs , where there wetc other parties whom Mr Williams joined . A person named _Stricklani was there . "U nderstood that they had business with the . deceased . They had eight bottles of wiae . The prisoner waited at tbe bar ab < mt an hour and half . He Slid mote than once that he wanted to sec Mr _Wiliiaius . Witness sent up a messenger to Mr Williams , and he sent word bask that he was engaged snd cc *_] _-j not _comt
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! down . This was about au hour after Mr Williams had ( gone upstairs . Witness sent up about lt o clock , when Mr Williams came down and saw the prisoner , and they Staid a short time together , when Mr _Williama returned again to the party upstairs . Did not see them together after that . The prisoner left the houso abont 12 o clock by himself . Mr Williams letk the house at half-past 13 o'clock with Strickland . When they left they were very tipsy . Had _narer seen the prisoner or Mr Williams since . On Sunday night following , she board tbat Mr Williams bad met witb au accident . She was not examined at tbe c oroner ' s inqueBt . When the _prisonur went away he was cross and as ho went out he said that Mr Williams would _nnt oomo down , and ho would wait for liim , J . inn s George Rogers , a city _poHccmvi , _deposwl thM on
_8-attttday night , at balf-pfist 12 o ' clock , on the 2 nd of November , 1814 , he was ou duty in the Minories , He saw three men cross frum the Sparrow-corner to tho city side ofthe Minories . They came as far as the railway bridge , and bailed a hackney-coach passing by . Witness had his _lii-ht with bim , Witness opened the coach-door , and Mr Williams got inside first ; he was a stout gentleman . Another of the party got into the _eoaa . h also . What became of the third person he did not know . H « saw no murks of vi olenco or blood on any of thc party at tho time , and no complaint was made to him . Robcri Copllog , 2 , _Curey-streot , _Vincent-street , Westminster , deposed tbat on _Saturalay , the 2 ad of _Norembi-r _" , 18 U _, he drove tbe backney coach , Hu was at the inquest held on the body of the deceased Mr Williams . At _iialf-past
li o ' clock ou Sunday morning , November D , 1844 , be took a fare close by the _railwaay aicb , Minuries , It mis a wet night , and two persons called him , and he drove towards tbem and took them up , Ho did not see any blood or mark _* of violenco on either of them . Iu _Whitccroisstreet they ot _ rcd him Is ., but he claimed Is . Gd , The deceased only had half a sovereign , and they ordered bim to drive to GrayVinn-road , and one of tbe gentlemen told him to puil up and put thorn down at a house in Constitution-row , Grn ) _s-inn-road , One of them told him to knock at the door and ask for the name of _Willi-uas , One seemed more weak than tha other , his head hung down . Witness knocked at the dour , and it was opened , A light was brought , and tho stoutest _genthniau ( deceased ; wasguidedinto tbe house . When in tlie passage , witness saw blood flowing from some part of his forehead . "Did not seo the wound , Tho cushion and insido of the coach were covered with blood , Dr Fogarty deposed to _having beta called out of his bed to attend Mr Williams ,
whom he found in a _stute of insensibility , partly from intoxication and partly from an injur / he had _received orer one of his eyes ; He had an impression at the time , from the appearance of the injury , that it might have heen inflicted by the point of a stick or an umbrella . He died on the following Tuesday or Wednesday in conse . _qm-nce of the injur ** . _Elinaboth Bakft ** *«&<* . at the honse in Constitution-row when Mr Williams was brought home in a coach . Mr Strickland was with him . Mr Williams Was insensible aod _hlvedtng . Witness took posses-lain of Mr William ' s umbrella , and Mr _Siricklaod el'timid thai umbrella , which had blood on the ferule , _afcc , Mr Strickland stopped two hours in the bouse , and he called on the following Monday to fee the deceased . Had seen the prisoner ut Mr William's before the night in question , but never afternrards . Witness was at the inquest , but not examined , Thc umbrella stained with blond wat called for , but not _produced . Mr Arnold said the case must be further _inrc-stigatod _, and remanded the prisoner for a week .
Cbabob or _Mansiadohim . — John Bruca was charged with the manslaughter of Mary _Allwqrtb , aged 08 years , The facts of the case have already appeared when they occurred , Ou Saturday night the prisoner entered the shop of a grocer in _iligh-stroet , _Lamba-th , and without the slightest provocation made a _.-nvago attack upon a youth employed th- re . Not satisfied with pulling him about the shop , the prisoner drew the youth into the street by the hair of his head , and while thc latter was Struggling to disentangle himself from his savage assailant , both knocked down the deceased , wbo happened to ba crossing the street with iuch force as to fracture her skull , and she explrw } in sir hours after . On her head being examined , au extensive fracture was found on the hack part , which produced an _effueiam ot blood on tbe brain , and caused her death . The prisoner said tUnt having received a severe wound in thu head , when he drank , he became so excited that he did not know what he did . He was fuily committed for trial *
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WESTERN CIROUIT .-DuRCHHSTKR—Williani _Apsey was indicted for havins ; burglariously entered the dwelling of Thomas _Colverille , on the 20 th ol March , at Chardstock , and stolen therefrom £ 60 in gold , silver , five-pound notes , and doubloons . On the night of thc 20 th of March , tho propertj mentioned ih the indictment was safely put into _n chest in a small room adjoining tlio prosecutor ' s bedroom . A portion «{ the money stolen consisted oi twenty guinea * -, two crooked _shillinus , an old farthing , two doubloons , and a half-doubloon , and three five-pound notes . They were contained in a small bag , wbich the prosecutor called his "mother ' s pocket . " The doubloons and the shillings had b . _ei in _ll-ii - tnno _ A ___* An _stF _tlis _. __> _itlt- > _u-r _> u > _i _* ttt i _' _tr-rtil-o fVia _* . _ rti * .. _c
than one hundred years- Tho prosecutor was ** _» s * _-d farmer , and on tbc morning after the 20 th of March , the window of the room in whioh the chest containing the money had been put , was found to have been broken open , and fhe money abstracted . Suspicion fell on a man of the name of Edwin Apsey , who was the prisoner ' s brother , who was in the employment of the prosecutor . This man had obtained the key belonging to his master ' s barn the night before the robbery took place , On the following morning he was found at his work there , and thc prisoner was lying on the straw . Edwin Apsey was afterwards taken into custody , when he stated that a portion of thc stolen money was concealed in a hcdj ; o on the prosecutor ' s premises . The money waa found there , and
Edwin Apsey afterwards mado his escape . In thc course of the following day , it _wa-i also tound that the prisoner had disappeared , and the _prosecutur ( lis covered , through tho means of Mr John Boa-is , n neighbouring farmer , that be ( the prisoner ) had slept in the prosecutor ' s barn on the day following the robbery , In the course of a conversation whicii took place between him and a man of the name ol Thomas Rowe , a servant of the prosecutor ' s , the prisoner stated that ho was going to leave the villas *** , as be was afraid that somebody would take him tW _stealit ) _- * Mr Boris ' s wheat . He stated to Hone that he had no money , and Rowe lent him halfa crown-Some time after tho _prisoner hnd disappeared , Mr _Devia received information which induced him to no in search of him . and after seeking him at Bridgewater , Taunton , and Bristol , he "ent to Cardiff , in South Wales , and gave a full description of the prisoner to the police _, lie returned to Chard , and in
the course of a few days a _communication was i . iade to him , that tho prisoner was in custody at Cardiff _, lie then proceeded to Cardiff , where he learnt that the prisoner had been at a public-house at Newport , at which phice ho-changed two _five-pound notes , and showed tho two doubloonsto tlio landlord , and ntated that his father wj » s a soldier , and bad brought those coins with him ftom abroad . A t that time the prisoner wore a black wig . He stated that his own name was Brown . Upon bis person a large sum of money aud the doubloons were found , lie said that he had come from near Exeter ; and when the town of Chard was mentionid to him , he expressed his utter ignorance of any such place . _MrBeviiicaused him to be brought back to Chard , snd indicted him at the assizes at Taunton for stealing his wheat , when he was convicted , and sentenced to eighteen months' imprisonment . lie was then brought here , and tried on the present charge .
Thejury found the prisoner guilty , and ho was sentenced to ton years' transportation , to commence from the expiration of his present term of imprisonment .
MIDLAND CIRCUIT . —LINCOLN . _MnRDuns mr Poison . —Mary Ann Milncr _, a rather inl __ ting young woman , aged twenty-seven , was charged with the murder of her mother-in-law , Mary Milner , by poison . The prisoner and her husband lived at the Tillage of _Barnathy-le-Wold , in this _connly , and were agricultural labourers , or _eotteis . The deceased and her husband lived in tbe same village , lt would seem the old people wero taken ill , and recommended by the doctor who attended them , to take sago . It would seem tbat during the time the mother and father-in-law were taking the sago , the prisoner was there , and had almost the whole house to herself , and to one ofthe witnesses she admitted having given the sago to tho old people . The mother died . "The
_tatbersurvived , but has become paralytic . Suspicion haviug been excited by subsequent _circumstanc « s , the body was oxhumed , and the presence of arsenic clearly detected . The prisoner waa proved to have purchased arsenic , but the facts were too slight to warrant a verdict of guilty , and a verdict of not guilty was returned . The prisoner was then charged with tbe murder of Hannah Tickets , being the wife of her brother . lt appeared that on the 30 th of June , the deceased had eaten some pancake in the morning with the prisoner , and about ten o ' clock sho came into tho kitchen of one Mary Winter , stating she had been so eating the pancake , and that she believed ski * _sras poisoned , nr . d _thouUI die , that the pancake had poisoned her . She stated she had not taken any poison herself , and had never had any in the house .
Deceased , who appeared to be in full possession of her senses , thou left and went to her own house , the witness followed , and found her on her knees , violently sick- and saying tlte pancake had poisoned her . She _wishod her husband to bo sent for , and he shortly afterwards arrived . This witness proved that she was with the deceased at intervals up to t » o { - ' clock of that day , and she continually complained of hor throat being very hot . Alary Watson went and told the prisoner what Tickel * snid _jtloul . being _»*> isoi _ 4 by the . pancake ; whereupon . she turned pale , her lips became white , and she sotmei almost unable to walk . Tho " prisoner went to tho _dscea-. _eil _, and 8 , iid , " 0 Hannah , do you think that the pancake has caused you to be so ? "' _Tiekels was unable to reply , She died about sis o ' clock of the same evening . The fhvjt matter vomited was thrown away , but tho witness thought what was subsequently vomited should bo preserved , and told tho prisoner no , but ; after tho death of Tiekels , prisoucv _eaid it
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had got thrown away . Elizabeth Watson proved that between eight and nine of the day in question _, deceased came to her , and asked /" whether she had any one in her houso ; " she replied , * ' no . Deceased said , "she would tell her something , but she was not to tell any one . " Sho then stated the prisoner had come to her houso and said , " Why , you have no fire . I'll lay you have had nothing warm this morning , and if she would go with her sho ( the prisoner } would fry her a pancake . That Bhe went and had the
pancake , but she believed the prisoner had put something in it , sho felt so queer—that she would bave left a portion of tho pancake , bnt a lodger was present , and it would have looked unmannerly . " William I ' ercival , a grocer in the same village , proved that six or eight weeks previous , tlio deceased came for a pennyworth of mercury ( white arsenic ) Ue said it was rather an awkward thing , but she appeared to be in her right mind , and not likely to destroy herself . She replied , " Oh no , * . l want to kill some rats . "
James Burdet Moxon , a * _-ur _ _-eon , proved the making it post mortem examination of tho body , and gave it _» 8 his _opinion that death was caused by arsenic , in which opinion she was confirmed by Mr Paleron , a surgeon , of Btigg . Thejury returned a vordict of guilty , and sentence of death was passed upon her . There was another indictment against her for the murder of Ellen Tickets . TIIE TRIPLE MURDERS AT MIRFIELD . Tuesday _lait having been fixed for tho trial of Patrick Reid , charged with the murders of James Wraith , Ann , his wife , and Caroline _tillis , at Mirfiell , the _courthouse at York was crowded . The prisoner pleaded not guilty . Mr Bliss , for the
prosecution , stated tho case . After describing various _circutnstnees , alluded to when the murder was investigated befre the coroner , jury , and tho magistrate . - , he aaid : The day on which this murder wa » cummittcd was Wednesday , May 12 . On Monday , the 10 th , James Wraith went with a witness who will be called before you . to Wakefield Market . A _person called open him , and he observed he had a second-best or older hat on , and that when he went with him to Wakefield market he put a better bat on . He ( meaning the person who called ) paid him on that day £ 2 in half-crowns , and two _sovcre ' uns , and he observed also that he had a watch . The next day , tbe 11 th , a plumber went to Mr Wraith ' s _house ti _> put ih a pane of _** la _ , and when he paid
him , tho plumber observed that he took outot ins pocket a considerable sum of money , both gold and silver . On the morning of the 12 tb , one ot his ( Mr Wraith ' s ) _step-sons , tho son of his wife by a _iormer husband , went to his house in the morning , and saw him white there counting his money , and observed a sovereign drop which he picked up . Tbi » is the _jjerson wholittt Saw them all alive , viz ., James Wraith , A . Wraith , hia wife , and C . Ellia , the _t-ervant-maid . After that , _botveve '" , J . Wraith was seen alive by other partiei . About ten or eleven o ' clock ho came down to a house which is opposite to the Kin ; : s Head , to a nephew of his who lives in that houso , in order to engage a great nephew—a son of tha' nephew—to come up to his house and assist him on his farm _ingatheringBtones . _Hisnephew saw him thore _, and having given those directions he returned homo .
IIo was never seen alive after that . Tho nephew went to the house rathor later than ho was accustomed to . as the ordinary time of going was about one o ' clock , but it happened that there was ashowerof rain atthe timo , and he did not go till after thc shower was over . IIo went by a cart-road _ieading from tbe King ' s Head . That cart-road loads into the yard which is behind tbc houses of Wraith . The _nephaw came up the cart-road , and entered the yard , where there is a wall on one side , and a barn on the oth _« _-r , but no j * ate . The kitchen faces into tliKjard , and tbe kitchen door is under a flight ot stairs behind the house . The nephew , who is about twelve years of age , tried the kitchen door and found it fast . He knocked , but there was no answer . He listened and all was still ; he could even hear the clock tick . He then c _ime round tho corner of the
house to the kitchen window , and ho observed that the shutters were closed but not entirely , no that he Could peep in , and he saw something white but could not tell what it * ra _ Uo then went round to the front nt the liou-e , and as he passed a window on the ground floor he observedthatthe _curtainswcredrawn to . That is the window of thc parlour where the family usually dined . He saw the window of tbe nther parlour had the shutters closed , but that was nothing unusual , ii being the better parlour not commonly need . But ho _observed on the step stones to the front door a pool of blood whioh seemed to be _runuinu from under the door . Tbis alarmed turn : he went back and made a communication to _M'hVinnell , and at his own houso . _aM'funnel ! returned with him
by the same road . Tliey went to the kitchen door ; found it fast . They went round , and M'Kinnell saw what Greuu , the nephew , had bet ' -re seen . They again went round to the back part of tho house , when _. _Vl'Kinnell opened the kitchen window and entered the kitchon . When ho did so be satr Caroline Ellis . the servant maid , lying on her back with her head towards the door , her feet towards the fire and towards a fender which stood between tbe fire and the door , dead , but warm , her throat cut and her skull broken . A pool of blood was about her hoad _, some spots of blood were on the Untie of the door , ami some others near the door . From the kitchen he went into the passage which was between the two parlours . In that passage he saw Ann Wraith lying dead on her
back , her bead against the door , a puol 0 ; blOOU alxmt hor head , her throat cut , and tiet skull broken . From the passage he entered at the parlour door , and there he saw lying Oa-i his hick , dead , with his throat cut and skull broken in a similar manner , James Wraitb , the deceased , into whose death you are now about to inquire . Everything was allowed to remain in tbe same state until 'he surgeon and the constable came , when a more minute examination of the premises took place . In the room where Mr Wraith lay was a _ebest of _drawers , of which a larger and a smaller drawer were open . Iu the under drawer waa a raz > rcase with two compartments , having one razor remaiain _** , and tho other razor , which was its fellow , and which had the mark of Mr Wraith's name upon
it , laying bloody , placed on thc breast nf Mr Wraith , as he Jay on the floor . Mrs Wraith ' s hands were bloody , and the wedding-ring gone from the finger where it is usually worn , and that nng-er wns much bruised . There was no money found on Mr Wraith , with the exception ot _ono-hall ' _. _sovereign . His watch was gone , and a hat , whieh has never been seen since . I have tnld you that 84 ' _KinneU entered by the kitchen window ; that thc kitchen door was locked with a key , and tbat key was not to bo found . Tho front do _& r was not locked ; but it had been bolted . All this transpired on Wednesday , the 12 th of May , between twelve nnd _ouc and two and three o ' clock . In the afternoon ofthe same day a person wns arrested named M'Cabe , and on tho Friday morning
after , between . and i o ' clock , another person was _arreted named Patrick Reid , the prisoner now at the bar . In a week after the murder , viz ., Wednesday , the 19 th , a well which is in the yard of Air Wraith's house , about five or six yards _frum the kitchen dour , was pumped out . On pumping it down , first a key came up , afterwards thero came up a soldering iron , and afterwards the handle of that iron _, which . seems to have _lodged on a ledge in the wall some way down as if left there by the water . That key waa tried , and fits the kitchen-door , and unlocks it , and you will bave some evidence to identify it as the key belonging to the kitchen-door . The foldering iron was found to fit the handle . The soldering iron and the key had marks upon them , which were
afterwards examined by a chemist , and who will be cailod before you ; and tho soldering iron will be traced up to the possession of thc prisoner at tbe bnr on the light before ttio murder was . committed When arrested , the clothes of Reid had spots of blood upon them , and on M'Cab _. s clothes was one spot , which was perhaps b _' ood . Now , as to the movements of Patrick Reid . On that morning he was seen passing Shill Bank , coming down Sbill Bank-Jane , b *< a person who lives somo way up , about ten or eleven o clock , with a cap on . He then turned towards Lee green . He is seen at Chadwick ' s between 11 and 12 and likewise at James Sheard ' s which is between _Lhadwick ' a and Ellis ' s housos . From Sheard ' s he is traced to Lockwood ' a and he is there at an _t-nini- down
the footpath towards wraith ' s house . Now , 1 connect the two together _<* 1 S far ns tliey are traced by the evidence , It seems that Reid came to the Shoulder of Mutton about ten minutes after M'Cabe had been there , and that he ( Reid ) turned down thc footpath leading to Wraith ' s house twenty minutes before M'Cabe turned dovm tho foothpath and went in the same direction , Reid is thon seen on the _frotpath by a person who will be called before you . This footpath leads past Wraith ' s house , and goes down to Webster ' _s house . He is seen about that time passing Webster ' s house in the rear , and going back again towards Webster ' s house about the same time . Ue is next seen by a person who is Water Royd-lane , looking towards Wraith ' s house , who sees Reid standing at the corner of the lane , and sees M'Cabe standing down a short distance from the Kina ' a Head with
his face towards Mr Wraith ' s house ? About the j samo time a person who is _tukin _ in clothes put out : to bleach in a field adjoining Mr Wraith ' s house heard in a direction towards that house a loud shriek , which he will _descrilw to you . Roid ia next seen at a place called the Town Gate , aud from Wraith ' s house to the Town Gate there is a communication by means of footpaths , lie is seen thero Jitter one o ' clock , and after what perhaps will prove an important event to mark the time , a Bnowcr of rain aeera , to havo como ou at tbat moment . At the Town Gate h ' w mother a . . --lao 1 k _w » iu 1113 winner
a . v « nau been standing for somo time . He joined his mother and went towards the church . From the March there is a footpath which leads iuto _Shillbanat . lano , and ho was seen going with that ieniale pas * , a houso by a _persun who had a short time previously seen him go past with a _ _ip on , and when he saw him return tbe pri _. onor had a hat OUa Ho vfas « een _goiug down _Bumws-lano , which leads to Dawgreen , aud then _agaift about _tbreo o _' _oiook ho was seen owning out of his own house . When M'Oabe was arrested , and _beioro he was arrested , ho made a statement which it is not for me to dotail , as he will to QalUd . _IwCqs-s y _ w Whea _RwWtw ftn * _- _^^ a * * **
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also made a statement whioh was this : — " * _, »/_ •¦ » was at the house about ike time you mention wi * my basket , selling thin **** . I knocked at the door [ no one answered , and I walked on . He w _ s tj , * asked if he choose to say where he went to af ' tur ward _ He said , " Well , I went down the footpath by th _ side ol Wrai th ' _s garden . Wraith ' s waa the last hot ™ . I called at ; I went forward , struck down ( he foot , !» atli which brought me lo the Town-gate in _MirfieJd and then I went over thc stile and along the foot path ' whicii leads to Mirfield church , and whilst on tint faiotpath I «» w a woman with a basket . I waited til . she evertook me , and we went on together as far _ , Mirfield churchyard . I" waited there until slit vT . into a _public-house near there , find when stie returned we went down the churchyard _lootpafh which took ,,, to Burrows-lane , where we parted . I then went _p-afc Mr Ilft _' oh ' _s . the magistrate , and _straightlorwffi
homo . " He was then asked if * . e chose to say w _. % clothes he had on , and he aaid he had the same coat , _waistco . t , trow * era , and hat on that Iw had then . His hat aud clothes were then _ti-. ken off ami "ive _* _. to the chem st . In that statement there are some things remarkable , fn thc first plt . ee lie says he was at the house , th _? r . he knooked at the door , and that ha heard nothing . There is an omission of his being at Webster ' s , aud it seem 9 the woman he spoke of wrm his own mother . Thero is an omisiion of his being seen at tbe barn corner , and there is _also .-in omission nf his hearine anything ofwh . it probably niuat havo
been taking place in Mr WwiUrt house about HIM time . Now , gentlemen , M'Cabe will bo called befora you , and his statement , I _underatnnd , will be , that he also went to tho house , that he knocked at tha door , that he received no answer , that ho knocked _a-rain . and still received no answer , and that he then _, rattled his pots iigainst the door . He says he hear * a noise in the house of some person moving about-. a noise of somo person going up stairs , lhat staircase inside led to a window which is oyer the stairs , and commands a view ol the road outside , llo thea heard footsteps come down stairs . The door was opened by fi man ; he saw some blood : and he hear * a moaning or a groaning . And he will tell you that the man who opened the door is tho prisoner at tha
bar . It will be in evidence beforo you that the pri . aoner at thc bar had been in the habit some time before of calling at Mr Wraith ' s house frequently , per . bans as often as once a week ; that he was on good terms with the family then ; that he was received into the _ktM-e , conversed _Tvlth , and sometimes had given to him meat and drink . But about Christma * last , having been at the house with some tea-caddies , he returned , after having left it , and charged Caro . line Ellis with having taken a tea caddy out of his basket . This sho denied ; but he persisted in it , and Mr Wraith was called on to turn him out of ths house , and he left the house with a threat that hfj would lie _revenged some time or other . So recently aa Easter , he met a person in the road who will ba oalled before you , who pointed to the house in which
Mr Wraith lived , and , speaking ofthe servant-maid , then uaed a threat that he would serve her out . Reid ' a clothes were given to a chemist , who examined them scientifically , and fonnd marks of blood on the coat , the cap , and on somo other parts of the clothes . llewilHett you also that he examined M'Cabe _' f * c _' _othes . I think I told you there was one spot ol blood on his clothea , and I believe I omitted to tell you that when M'Cabe was arrested his 8 tock . _' _ng » word found to be wet ; no marks ot blood could be detected , but there had been rain , and his shoes werevery bad . The chemist examined the key and sol . dering iron , and he will tell you that there are mark * of blood , or traces of some of the component parts of Wood , found on all these-the key , the soldering iron and tho handle . Gentlemen , the Boldennjf iron will be traced up to tho prisoner by this
on-Michael M'Cabe said : I ara 35 years of age . I have hawked iu tbe neighbourhood of _Mn-field for the last five years . I knew _aVfr and Mrs Wraith , and was at their house on the 12 th of May last . I wan out hawking that day , and left home about eight i » themornihg . I was at different places in Mirfield , and amon _<* st them at ihe Shoulder of Mutton Inn . I called there about twelve o ' olock , and saw Patrick Reid there . I know him only by sight , and _4 id nob speak to him . From tho inn I went toother place * , at one of which I exchanged some pots for some rags , a large hone , and a piece of rope . After a time I went down tho foot-road to Mr Wraith ' s hiuae . I went into the back-yard , and set my _basket down .
before the kitchen door , which was shut . I knocked , but no ono answered . I put dawn my hag and waited a while , and then knocked agtin . Then I heard a footstep , as if up stairs . I beard it descending tho stairs and become more distinct as it appr lachcd ths _kvtchen . I knocked again , and then the door wa » tmloeked , and opened about six inches , so tbar a man's face could be put out . I asked if anything ia my way was wanted , and was answered in a low voice , " No . " At the same time I heard something like a soft moan or » igh . On the wall , by the side ofthe door , opposite to the latch , I saw sprinkles of b ' ood . My attention having been arrested by the white wall , the face , and the marks of blood , Hooked down on the floor , and saw other marks of blood
there . The person holding the door open , seeing me look down on the floor , partially closed the door . I then retired a few yards off , and was in the act of lifting my basket on my head , when 1 saw that tha window shutters were closed . I then wen . on my way ; and when I had got about forty yards off , I heard a noise , as if the door was suddenly cloBed , There was only ra y basket between me and the man who camo to the door , so that I was not more than a yard distant from him . That man was Patrick Reid . When I left tlie house , I went on to John _AI'Kinhell's , the King ' s Head Inn , at the top of the carriage " read leadin g to Wraith ' s house . From there j went to Smithson's , a few hundred yards off , where I smoked my pipe , and joked . A heavy shower o { rain fell as I was passing from _M'Kuw nell ' s to Smithson's . When I left Smithson ' s , I went to Charley Flint ' s , at Robert-town . I had some rags and bones from him , and wanted to
borrow some money from bim to purchase ; omo glasses to take back to Mirfield . Flint was not in , and I waited till he came , and got from him the money , I then went to Hightown to purohase the glasses . When Flint came in , after I had waited , he asked if we had heard anything about tho murder at Mirfield . Hen * asked where , he said at Wraith's , where tba old man bis wife , and his daughter , bad been found dead , I then mado a statement to Flint . W hen at Hightown I called at my own house , but did not stay three minutes . I went baok to Flint's , where I saw Will Sheard , and wc bad some conversation about what I had scon . Then I started back again for tha Shoulder of Mutton , at Mirfield , with the pots and glasses , but was apprehended by the constant ** , Leadbeater , before I get there . 1 have known the prisoner Reid , for about seven months by sight , but not by name . I havo met him occasionally as we have beea hawking .
Various other witnesses were examined , and gavo > the aamc evidence aa before the coroner ' s inquest and t the magistrates , all of which has been published ;; and wo need not repeat it . —John Noble , gaoler of t York Castle , stated that the day after Mr Watts , , attorney , visited M'Cabe , lleid sent for witness , aad 1 seemed to wish to know what had pnssed between 1 M'Cabe and his lawyer . He asked if I knew . Toldi him I did not . Uo hesitated a good deal , aud said i something . I said the public believe that two men _i could not do it . I also said , that the police was after r
two other men . I think it is right to say , that I did d not caution him . for I did not expect to bo called oa a as a witness . He then spoke ( but I cannot recollect _jfe the precise words ) to this effect : * ' There was none ia *» it , or none knew of it , but them two . " I did not it put the words down , and cannot be sure of the words , s . Ono aaid he used the word "them . " My _** im-upreision" was , he meant "them" two , M'Cabe and id himself . He said , " _ » two , " - Cross-examined : Willill not swear that those were the words used ; for it i $ i $ possible that I may havo beea mistaken in theirur import .
The case for the _prossoution having closed , Mrnr Serjeant Wilkins addressed thejury in defence , in a . a speech of three hour , duration , contending that _the-hd evidence was insuflicient to show that Reid was thaha guilty party ; but that , if it proved anything , it was'as that M'Cabe had himself committed tho murder . er . No witnesses were called in defence . At twentjity minutes before six o ' clock , his lordship OODimeiicedjed summing up , laying considerable stress on the _com-im-i munication made by Read to Mr Noble , the _governomoi : of tho gaol . The jury , after being absent for two hours audiudi forty minutes , returned a verdict of Not Guilty .
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_CoiCHEST _**** , MONDAT . _—EltSaSSIVB FlRB . — ____ i terday forenoon an extensive fire wa 3 discovered _iid iu the farm homestead of Mr Frederick Wade _. _situatuatn at Alresford , about six miles from this town . ThThu only person at home at tho time- wa ** . the _Bcrvant _girlgirll who stated that sho first saw the loose straw in thi thi y ard on fire , and from thence it _quickly caught tht tht buildings . The wind was rather atvoiig atthe _tintiiniit and the flaum conseuuently wade vapid progvi _^ _ss Thealarra having reached _the-viiiaga church , whwlhwll is but a short distance from the farm in questiontioni the whole of the congregationwith the miuisteiisteii
, turned out to render assistance . An engine froi froi * the town was also promptly upon the spot , hut _tlie-them being little water within reach , the destruction wa the premises was inevitable , and in about two nouboui was completed . Tho only portion saved was tho tho rt _sidcuce , which waa tfrotea bj the _usttona oJ _thjt thno present in pulling down tho granary ,, by which tch ti cwnmonieatioa was cut off . . Mr Wade will bell bee severe sufferer by tho destruction ot his crop of hof hi and the loss of two valuablo _horaes and a Colt . 1 I buildings were tho property of W . W . llawkms , to , tool" Alresford Hall .
EAUTiu . uiH . E at _Havuk . —On Saturday , the He ICC inst ., i _» fclUUo _, before , eleven at night , the _uhc shoo of an earthquake was sensibly felt in the immediaedll neighbourhood of Havre , accompanied by a J a 11 rumbling _noiso . Several persons were much ska ! shall in their beds in _Inj-ouville and Granville , two aiVo add cent _vill-igss . There was a second shock on on same night , and after an interval of two days it _] _rsH '' _remteii-
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Northern Star (1837-1852), July 24, 1847, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_24071847/page/6/
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